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www.DOKweb.net is a portal dedicated to East European documentary film. The news section provides up-to-date information on upcoming and just completed films, interviews with filmmakers and other documentary professionals, in-depth articles exploring the state of documentary filmmaking in various parts of the region, as well as insightful texts on current trends, funding, etc. The portal also boasts the largest published databases of completed and upcoming documentary films from Eastern Europe, an industry directory, as well as trailers and original video content. www.DOKweb.net is IDF´s key online project that provides comprehensive details on all IDF´s activities and links them with general information service.

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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

BREATHLESS CAGE SHORT AT ROTTERDAM IFF

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21.01.2010

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Anca Miruna Lazarescu's One Day Today Will Be Once (Es wird einmal gewesen sein) - developed with four other Czech and German films under the Breathless project - will be presented in the shorts section of the Rotterdam IFF (Jan 27 - Feb 7). Going strong after the premiere in October 2009, Breathless films have already been awarded at two festivals and are scheduled to attend a number of major events.

Rotterdam International Film Festival
January 27 - February 7, 2010
The Netherlands

ONE DAY TODAY WILL BE ONCE / ES WIRD EINMAL GEWESEN SEIN
Germany 2009, 27 min

Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Producer: Stefan Kloos
Sales: Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
Script: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Photography: Tobias Tempel, Tanja Häring
Editor: Uwe Wrobel

A documentary attuned to our perception of time and investigating the potentially 639-year-long performance of a score from John Cage. In a small German church, a pipe organ plays avant-garde composer John Cage's Organ2/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) a single note at a time, its 639-year long concert planned to continue without interruption until the year 2640.

BREATHLESS FILMS

Jan Gogola's I Love My Boring Life won the Award for Best Czech Documentary Film at the 2009 Jihlava IDFF.

In November, Rainer Komers won the Blicke Award for his Milltown, Montana at the Blicke Film Festival.

At the end of December, the Breathless collection was released in cinemas across Germany.

Karel Žalud's Phantom of Liberty II has been selected for the upcoming ZagrebDox that will take place at the end of February (please check back soon for more updates).

Breathless - Dominance of the Moment was a two-year Czech-German project created by Zipp German-Czech Cultural Projects, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes). Its objective was to support the development and production of strong creative documentary films that would otherwise have little chance of being made, to promote Czech-German cultural cooperation and to survey the current state of documentary filmmaking in the two countries. The Czech side of the project is handled by the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague (IDF); the German side is covered by the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig). In 2009, the project provided funding and producers for 5 short creative documentaries. The project is supported by the Czech-German Fund for the Future; Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic; State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography; Czech Television; arte/ WDR; arte/ ZDF; Filmstiftung NRW; Filmwerkstatt Kiel, and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung. Project partner: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. Jiří Konečný, endorfilm s.r.o. (www.endorfilm.cz), is the producer of the Czech films; Stefan Kloos, Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH (www.kloosundco.de), is the producer of the German films.

Contact:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
P.O. Box 21696
3001 AR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 108 909 090
F: +31 108 909 091
E: tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

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21.01.2010

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